Ecosystems - Lessons 1 and 3
  • 1. An organisms that breaks down dead and decaying matter
A) predator
B) herbivore
C) omnivore
D) decomposer
  • 2. An animal that eats only plants for food
A) carnivore
B) herbivore
C) omnivore
D) vegivore
  • 3. An animal that eats both plants and animals
A) decomposer
B) hungry
C) carnivore
D) omnivore
  • 4. An animal that eats both omnivores and herbivores
A) carnivore
B) producer
C) herbivore
D) omnivore
  • 5. Many food chains that are linked together are called a ________________.
A) food circles
B) food string
C) food web
D) food link
  • 6. Which of the following is a producer?
A) plant
B) fish
C) cricket
D) spider
  • 7. An example of an omnivore would be a ___________________.
A) praying mantis
B) wolf
C) bear
D) cat
  • 8. The animal that is hunted by its predator
A) consumer
B) prey
C) predator
D) producer
  • 9. An example of an herbivore would be a ______________.
A) rabbit
B) spider
C) worm
D) lion
  • 10. An example of a decomposer would be a ____________________.
A) a person
B) worm
C) a tree
D) a bird
  • 11. The living parts in an ecosystem are called
A) ecology
B) fossils
C) biotic factors
D) abiotic factors
  • 12. The direction an arrow faces in a food chain points to who is ___________________.
A) eats meat
B) doing the eating
C) eats plants
D) getting eaten
  • 13. The nonliving parts in an ecosystem are called
A) ecology
B) abiotic factors
C) producers
D) biotic factors
  • 14. Carnivore that hunts for its food
A) predator
B) producer
C) consumer
D) prey
  • 15. Organisms that make their own food for energy are called
A) consumers
B) herbivores
C) carnivores
D) producers
  • 16. Organisms that cannot make their own food and get energy from other organisms are called
A) plants
B) vegivores
C) producers
D) consumers
  • 17. The straight path in which energy is passed from the sun, to producer, to consumers is called a
A) food highway
B) food web
C) food chain
D) food line
  • 18. The living and nonliving factors in an environment and all their interactions
A) ecosystem
B) community
C) ecology
D) food web
  • 19. An important abiotic factor that means the typical weather pattern in an environment
A) heat
B) climate
C) weather
D) temperature
  • 20. All the members of a species that live in an ecosystem
A) population
B) species
C) kingdom
D) community
  • 21. All of the populations in an ecosystem
A) kingdom
B) habitat
C) population
D) community
  • 22. The home of an organism within an ecosystem
A) habitat
B) pond
C) community
D) house
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